CHAPTER 10. YAHWEH LEAVES THE TEMPLE ENVIRONS. We have already seen that Yahweh has deserted the sanctuary for the threshold of the temple, while judgment was carried out on those within it. Now He will desert the temple completely. He will no longer have any part in it. When Nebuchadnezzar comes t... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Then I looked and behold, on the flat plate that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.' Here we are carried right back again to the first vision in chapter 1. The flat level plain of the colour of awes... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And he spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, “Go in between the whirling wheels, to underneath the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” ' Where He spoke from here we are not told. In Ezekiel 9:3 the glory of Yahweh ha... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Now the cherubim stood on the right side (thus ‘the south side') of the house when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court. And the glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub and stood over the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud and the court was full of t... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty (El Shaddai) when he speaks.' The sound of the wings of the cherubim was clearly also awesome (compare Ezekiel 1:24). It filled the whole house even to the outer court. And it was powerful an... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And it came about that when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” he went in and stood beside a wheel, and the cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and t... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings.' This is to explain how the cherub was able to take the fire and hand it to the angel (see also Ezekiel 1:8) by means of a man's hands under his wings. The foreign ‘cherubim' on which these cherubim were patterned did n... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And I looked and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a stone of Tarshish. And as for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been within a wheel.'... [ Continue Reading ]
‘When they went they went on their four sides. They turned not as they went. But to the place where the head looked, they followed it. They turned not as they went.' The fours sides would be north, south, east and west, and when they moved they moved directly forward without being diverted. Thus th... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And their whole body, and their backs and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, the wheels that they four had. And as for the wheels, they were called in my hearing “the Whirlers”.' In Ezekiel 1:18 it was the edges of the wheels that were full of eyes. Here E... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And every one had four faces, the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.' Here it is the face of ‘the cherub' that is prominent, and that looks ahead. The ox of Ezekiel 1:10 has dropped... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the cherubim mounted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the River Chebar. And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them, and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also turned not from beside them. When they stood, these stood, and wh... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the glory of Yahweh went away from over the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim, and the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went away, and the wheels beside them, and they stood at the door of the east gate of the house of Yahweh, a... [ Continue Reading ]
‘This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the River Chebar, and I knew that they were cherubim. Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings. And the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings, and as for the likeness of their faces, they were the face... [ Continue Reading ]